Anime's Digital Revolution
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2024
- We're in the midst of an interesting cultural shift in anime. The last few years have seen massive changes in how anime is made and how we watch it. In this video, I take a look into those changes to see where anime might be going in the future.
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Anime: A History by Johnathon Clements
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The problem with digital anime is it looks too clean which makes it feel stiff or lifeless, the imperfections or so called textures of cel animation makes it feel more alive & also with the detailed shading, vivid color palettes & the rough line arts that a few animes have because of budget issues with rushed production time. Today's digital technology can replicate the looks of cel animation within a small amount of time, I really want to see a modern digital made anime look cel animated.
I think you would appreciate works like Mob Psycho, Scissor Seven, Ping Pong the animation, Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Megalo Box, Sonny Boy, Devil Man Crybaby, and maybe Great Pretender.
The quality of animation has definitely improved significantly these past few years and even decade. Animators are making better use of movement, camera angles, and of course quality traits such as smoothness. This is sort of a tangent, but I believe anime just to be another way to tell a story. Animation is one such way to tell a story, and new experimental methods of animating adds a lot not just for enjoyment but also enhancing a story. After all, those little details could be explained for paragraphs in a book, and not even to the same effect. Anime has the ability to truly "show not tell," but this also brings me to my biggest misgiving about anime for the future. The quality of story.
No matter how good the animation, what an anime is ultimately judged on is based on its story. I could write an essay about what an effective story is, how to incorporate animation to more effectively tell a story, or even if a good story is relevant to quality/enjoyment at all, but that's a topic for another day. My main concern is about the improvement of quality of storytelling in anime. Has it improved? yes and no. Occasionally, some stellar works are produced I must admit, but most of the time new anime couldn't even be worth mentioning because of its story. A couple reasons I could think of in this moment is safety and advertisement. Safety as in creating works that producers know people will watch but aren't particularly outstanding, tons of school anime for example. And advertisement as in creating a work for the sole purpose of promoting the original work. We can see this in the increased number of 12/13 episode seasons which do not particularly go anywhere for example, ultimately causing people to want to read the source material.
tl;dr
Animation: improving
Story: Not improving
I have to disagree to an extent. It doesn't matter how good the story is from a strictly narrative standpoint if it isn't well told through its visuals just like nobody wants to read a book with good ideas if it's not written well. Also, unlike most people, I enjoy watching abstract and experimental animation which don't have real stories at all. Though even with those there's a discipline of what you show the audience and when that is similar to storytelling in a sort of primitive way.
There is a lot that I agree with too, though. I've seen one short anime series that stopped before the plot could go anywhere interesting, exactly like you describe. Also, I enjoyed the film Your Name despite the fact that the character design and animation didn't seem to have an original idea in it. There may be some subtleties of motion that I missed but it showed me that story can make up for some level of visual deficiencies. I'd explain what drew me into the story but I don't want to ruin it for other people who haven't seen the movie.
Go ahead and write that essay. If you do, I'll read it and give my opinion on it.
As an aspiring animator i really do enjoy these kind of videos !
keep up the good work!
u a bad animatoe. pls gib up
Zucchini Juice y would ju sa that, pls be nicer
no! HE BIG BAG BOI. he no nice he bad bo. I do knot lik him
You want to do 2d or 3D animation?
both
I am so happy that you mentioned space dandy and praised it for it's Animation.
To me it seems that most people have already forgotten my absolute favorite show.
Stay dandy baby.
Ps: great video man
Dear AnimeEveryday,
Would you consider adding to your video description a list of anime titles featured in your essay, please? Thank you in advance.
P.S.: Do you plan to tackle the topic of video games' animation (anime related titles)?
Thatd be cool
Fate is still my favorite series so damn good looking
I’m most excited about the wave of commitment to good storytelling. ONE is an inspiration, and the fact that some like One Punch or Mob Psycho exists is so encouraging. As a storyteller and art teacher, I love to see and share things like these pieces of art, and the commentary that understands and praises them.
Glad you gave some love to Space Dandy, it’s in my top 10 anime of all time
Hey mate, i'm gonna watch this tomorrow cause its late here. But here's a like in advance for the top content.
yo wtf
also a note and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, One punch man was one of the first productions to go fully digital for a traditionally animated feature, while most anime is digital, the keys and breakdowns are almost always still done on paper, then scanned into the computer to be inked and painted, shirobako shows a great example of most of this process. one punch just ditched the paper all together, IMHO a long time coming but whatever.
Cite?
If anime combined the attention to detail of cell animation with the conveniences of digital animation then I think we could really get truly special work; a lot of movies use both practical effects combined with CGI and they age a lot better than movies that solely use one or the other.
Honestly, I had fallen out of anime for a while, but this new digital revolution, bringing forth new ideas and some bold visions, is starting to reel me back in with a whole new appreciation for anime as an artistic medium. It's a good time to be a lover of technology and/or art, because now we can truly explore the limits of what we can do artistically regardless of medium: animation, film, music, traditional art, etc.
And with internet and video streaming becoming more and more prevalent, it just means a wider potential audience and a complete upheaval of the corporate system as a whole when it comes to art; either these corporate studios and labels have to adapt to the new changes of "artist first" and make themselves attractive to a particular artist or they will be rendered completely obsolete because of the fact talent can become successful without going through the corporate system. The internet has truly been an amazing thing to come in our lives.
hey i just wanted to say how impressed i am with your videos. well researched, clear, concise, and informative. Very nice. please keep doing stuff like this it really makes me enjoy anime more. I am learning about so many different new things to watch.
A video about animation that doesn't bring up ufotable?!?!?! BLASPHEMY!!
In all seriousness though, great video I'm always very interested to see these dives into the industry, keep it up!!
I miss your videos
Fate/heavens feels movie took digital animation from a whole different level . Ufotable beta tested their new techniques at God eater and imo failed but they hit the jackpot at heavens feel. The animation is still not perfect though since some scenes the characters look stiff and still
Easily your best video. Glad I subbed, keep up the good work. I love that you focus on the interesting, positive, and celebratory aspects of the medium while still acknowledging its shortcomings without punching down or being negative.
Sakuga. That's a term I didn't know but I definitely love and seek out. This was a great video and made me feel a lot more optimistic than I usually feel about modern anime! If creative people like the ones in this video are able to make more great and inspired things, then we can look forward to some superb anime in the future!
For the love of all that is good someone make a list of the names of the animes from the clips throughout this video. PLEAAAAASSSE???!!!
I'm mostly looking forward to more, Masaaki Yuasa. His style is very inspiring.
#AnimeEveryMonth
makoto shinkai's first film only took him 7 months? damn
My favourite animation:
Kizumonogatari I - III
Mob Psycho 100
Deku v Todoroki fight (I liked the sketchy thick black lines drawn on deku and the end of the fight.)
Gurren Lagann
A Silent Voice
Attack On Titan
One Punch Man
I appreciate Kizu being first mentioned. Rotoscoping is great lol
I really enjoy your work, I think it is television quality, I often forget I am watching a TH-cam video. Great work!
I wish that there was more focus placed on the other disciplines in anime production now that we've hit a point where everything *looks* really good. These days, I very rarely get floored by a story or by a score in addition to the animation. We're at a point where it should all work in concert.
The last time it came together for me was Violet Evergarden in W18. Before that, it was Made In Abyss. Both had excellent scores, a gripping story, and amazing animation. But, these days, we get the same isekai and shounen recycled day-in and day-out.
tl;dr I feel like we could be doing more than just making pretty pictures.
Mob Psycho was impressive with how many mediums they used. It was blasted for not looking pretty or clean but did something different and won awards. World of Gumball does something similar with blending different styles to create unique visual style.
I think anime, and even TV/movies in general, could experiment with spatial audio and other cool sound design tricks.
A lot of anime feels very recycled for sure. Needs a lot more experimentation.
Maybe I should send one of my stories to Netflix and see if they agree and make it an anime.
can we get mal links for the anime on the video plz
This is the best thing to happen to anime
Thank you for this detailed essay! Sadly, both your channel & this video are criminally underrated. :((
Stay strong mate, wishing you the best!
Hang on, shit, did Shinkai do Nihonbashi?
I fuckin' LOVED that short. Reminded me of Mekakushi.
I definitely think we are in the beginning of a huge experiment shift in animation, however production budgets is shrinking and production of anime at an all time high something bound to break. Already we are seeing some note worthy studios shut their doors because the margins are tighter than ever for development. I think many older studios will close their doors since they can't adopt to the new paradigm shift in production. So yes I am excited but I think we will loose some studios in the next year's as the shake up happening
love your work dude, keep it up!
Thanks!
Hi where are you
I'm looking forward to anime becoming more mainstream in the west.
Damn, it's always fun to learn more. *If I had my way big studios like Shaft & Trigger would do more crowd funded projects, eventually trickling down to smaller studios like Science Saru* If every 2 or 3 years all my favourite studios made short films like Little Witch Academia to set the tone for the series and offer perks for early adopters, I would have loved to be apart of Osomatsu or Konosuba
When I was watching Space Dandy season 2 I realized that I was seeing different talent's show off their work impressive stuff!
I love Space Dandy especially the English dub is fucking amazing(and before people start bitching at me I like sub and dub)
Batmanisawesomesoami
Me too
The dubs horrible lol
I agree.
The japanesee dub is really horrible( I didn't understand anything)
:-)
Batmanisawesomesoami the dub is funnier. Space dandy is so underrated.
Ian Sinclair was born to be Dandy
I could be wrong, but I feel that at 8:55 that is supposed to be Kiyotaka Oshiyama. Oshiyama is honestly one of my favorite fresh talents in the anime industry. I'd love to see him at the directors helm again as Flip Flappers is easily one of my favorite productions from anywhere in the industry.
mentioning flash I just wanted to a hugely important anime renknown for it's beauty and innovation across the animation and design community the french anime wakfu, by ankama, and if you havent watched the first Dofus movie also animated in flash, just prepare to be amazed it is one of the most beautiful animations done period, but that's the French, aesthetic excellence is their thing, another astounding flash animated film, french again, while not an anime is Ernest and Celestine, is just so beautiful, also nominated for an oscar in 2014.
Love these kinds of videos, thanks!
Thanks Avery! Glad you enjoyed :)
Comeback making video pls, i like your style
What's the name of the anime at 2:50? The animation looks awesome and I just have to know what it is-
I love this guy's channel
hopefully it will make more and more good anime :)
Fate zero is a good example for digital animation other is demon slayer. Such a beautiful anime🔥😊
AE, your work is bloody fantastic, but whether it's you editing or someone else, do you think you could have a small piece of text with the shown anime's title? I've never seen many of these anime.
>that kanada dragon in space dandy
So much good sakuga on screen
Nice vid. Plenty here I want to see now.
I'm most excited for the possibility (there's no promise) of new stories. Magical girls, boys with destinies, and body horror infused metaphorical monsters still run rampant. Niche is where anime belongs if it wont take the cue of something like...
One Punch Man.
Right down to it's pilot (which is economic and direct) the show gives us a character with the most relatable emotion encountered across the internet: frustration. Sure there's also depression and admiration, but in a art form ransacked with pretension One Punch Man is so fresh in comparison. I don't even want a second series. Just point me in the direction of the next show/movie/OVA that's telling us a modern story. Enough with the bunny girls.
anime at 2:52?
As just a relative outsider with little grasp of the specific changes of the industry, I gotta maybe cut a little bit away from the crowd and say that I don't like a good chunk of sakuga animation. It's not all bad, but I feel like it's not very grounded. It's very flashy, but it feels almost schizophrenic. The choreography and framing of many sakuga shots is poorly done imo, I can barely tell what's going on. I think that limited framerates play a role in this, as the amount of visual information you can convey, while still keeping a really intense and fast sense of action, is hamstrung. It's not all just framerate and medium limitations, though. I would like to see sakuga scenes experiment more with slow motion. I think digital tools could help with this a good amount by utilizing the warp and movement curve tools to change already done drawings more incrementally instead of bombarding the viewer with a ton of disparate frames and hoping they understand it. The human brain takes about three frames to process visual information that it's not totally primed for, so if you're wanting to actually sell the impact of a hit, you have to linger on it for more than three frames, and if you want to sell the motion before the hit, which is arguably more important for how flubbed it is, you have to commit at least three frames and probably more to the curve of that motion. You can get away with less or more depending on how well you leverage your keyframes.
I'd also like to say that I think a good amount of this is just how the story frames the action. There's nothing explicitly saying that an action scene has to be as flashy as it is within any story, but it often feels like a ton of pressure is placed on action scenes to be as impactful as possible, especially when compared to character animation or more subtle moments, which feels like a weird sort of favoritism by the story of a lot of anime. It's more complex than just leveraging scenes to be high action or high energy when you dump time into them, and I feel like a lot of animation directors don't really get that. Time can also be put into a scene in the form of deliberation, and it feels like a lot of these scenes are poorly thought out and poorly overseen. I'm definitely someone that likes technical action compared to the boombastic, but there's not really a reason that they can't sit within the same piece, or even the same scene. If you're having more schizophrenic and less understandable action, that has to have some service in the story. Maybe our protagonist understands the action less, maybe it's just more metaphorical. Good examples of that might be the more experimental short films you can find on youtube, like boisvert. You can also have even coherent or well coordinated action with really really intense breakneck pacing, when I think of that, I always think of classic hong kong action cinema, with lots of great poses and choreography over the space of just seconds. Or you could just have a coherent action scene with a more normal narrative pacing, like redline.
Anime's also had a consistent problem with drawing only internal inspiration from within anime, though, so it's no surprise to me when this collapses into pieces with less coherence, both in story and in animation. It's not as self-aggrandizing and cannibalistic as something like webtoon, at least. Have passion for animation, and for anime, but by god, have passion for something else, too.
but yeah, that's my 2 cents.
you forgot to mention one Web-Gen animator: Monty Oum
even if he isn't strictly anime, he mastered choreography and created his own style of animation that's easily recognizable
I like your cover by the way
Still enjoyed my hero academia stain arc animation .(I know most people think this series is crap but I enjoyed it )
bro excellent music to the movie, keep doing
I'll suggest a video about 3D just as an excuse to see a video talking about Houseki no Kuni.
You are awesome Anime Everyday!You are really passionate about anime and it is shows...I am excited about Netflix funding anime,the audience can explode if it is promoted by Netflix,fingers crossed.
Really like your vids esp anime movies. I was wondering if you've seen the shounen jujutsu kaisen? Gege akutami is the author and it's his first manga. I really want to know your view on the story.
beck is the shit
Dang all of the anime you have on the thumbnail were like some of the first I’ve ever seen
Do you feel like your an optimistic individual, or are you optimistic because of the state of the industry?
I think Japan needs to move fully to digital streaming no more BD reliance
You didn't mention bahi JD. A legendary digital animator.
but my god digital anime looks so good, but can't be said same for cg anime though and hopefully anime will never turn 3D and always remain 2D.
I think generally CG in anime has gotten better (or maybe I'm more used to it) but some shows *cough* Berserk *cough* give it a bad name!
Like with any technique, if used well, it can be good :)
what about the little Kemono Friend that could?
As good as the animation in anime like Yozakura Quartet and Space Dandy is i never got into these anime because they give too little in terms of story or undermine their own impact by inclusion of needless sexualization of characters. One Punch Man or Flip Flappers are a way better package that is not just limited to great animation but have substance behind that animation as well.
Well I strongly disagree in terms of space dandy.
But I can understand why you are been disliking this show
Complaining about needless sexualisation?
Mate, go watch yuri on ice if you don't like sexy girls, and Yuri on ice even has a plot, I think.
zomfgroflmao1337 I agree. I enjoy beautiful and fluid animation, no matter the style of the artists. However, if the story is not good, I won't continue to watch. No matter how great or how bad the animation is, I will always favor storytelling over it. I'm a big fan of storytelling.
William Julien Nkoghe Olympio agree, many anime in recent years lacking good storyline. Some only to fulfill quota which make it useless in term of existence. Even childen anime chii's sweet home has a better story than majority of today anime.
what is Made in Abyss!
+AnimeEveryday also would love to hear your thoughts about this one.
You should talk about Houseki no kuni and it's CG style.
One Punch Man is probably my favorite anime when all is said and done.
we need a list of names you said most of them but i didnt hear a few please i need to make my eye climax by watching these shows
i want to see more real mentaly jaring unique anime happened
Little witch academia is allright for me .I mean good animation but the story was just meh for me ,not saying it’s bad .I enjoyed the worldbuilding for for it
Hey AnimeEveryday! What style do you prefer digital or cel?
I don't really have a preference, it depends what the animators do with it!
Digital or cel? Strange line to draw there... Cels haven't really been used for quite some time now as far as I know at least. Even those that draw on paper usually just scan and do the ink and paint job with digital tools. Or did I misunderstand the question that wasn't even aimed at me?
Great video. I enjoy streaming anime.
woah, where's that pink haired girl with the guitar from? 11:27 or so in time
Sin : Nanatsu no Taizai
No, that's clearly the same character from Sin. A quick google search proves that.
Are you super eyepatch wolf?
Being a part. No. Witnessing all that change, not only in animation, but in the world as a whole is awesome. It's a great time to be alive!!!!
Can anyone give the name of anime used in the video? The only one's I know of are Space Dandy and Konosuba.
Where r u from exactly ? I can't identify what accent u have, I kno it's brittish but it's like it's got slight Scottish/irish in it.
I'm Scottish :)
This accent brings a whole new level of awesome to these videos.
AnimeEveryday Thanks for confirming that m8 ! That initially was my first guess but your accent is rather thin so that made me doubt it. Although you did make a video about that scottish event so that also made me lean closer towards this guess.
P.S. Thanks for your videos ! Because of you, Horizon in d middle of nowhere is now my fav & i also watched some others that u recommended :D
I HEARD REVOLUTION?!
with the exceptions of anime films
I like Konosuba's style, best animation i've seen so far.
For me it’s nothing special but enjoyable
Tatokun u never saw something beautiful anime aren't you. Look back cardcaptor sakura and u Will surprise how beautiful even it release in 97
Ryuzaki Raiga I also like sakura card captor. And i said so far because i know there or will be others out there that are gonna be one of the best animated. Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying that anime are not good animated every anime has their own style. And that makes them unique.
11:29 when the heck?
Could I know the name of the anime that is in the minute 11:25?
Thanks for any reply.
current new anime has sucked allot with few good new ones
douglas fern Same could be said for all time and for other mediums like video games and western-produced movies and shows.
Oh so by digital, you mean the way it is distributed right?
Topanimeweekly your voice is kinda like supereyepatch wolf to me .(Saying this cause a lot of people kept talking about his voice
Very nice video! =)
WOW your videos are Really Very Insightful. I like your videos. (Y) (Y) Keep it up. I would suggest a video Special Effects. That would be Great :D
Are you SuperEyepatchWolf?
What kind of editing software do you use?
Where is the girl at 2:54 from?
Dude Flash doesn't exist anymore. Adobe changed it and calls it Adobe Animate CC instead.
Ah I wasn't aware of this. I wonder if animators use the new version or older versions of Flash. Would be interesting to find out.
I don''t know, I actually think a lot uses after effects. Or at least to composite the layers together and add VFX and other digital effects before sending it to an editor to put all clips and scenes together. Or that's how I imagine it's like.
Also I would like to know if the bigger studios has their own unique animation softwares or not. Just because I'm curious about it.
2:55 Where is this scene from?
what anime is 6.30??
What anime is at 11:15?
That is a game called Tales of Symphonia a New Dawn! Great game back in the day.
What's the name of the anime at 2:58?
It's called Nihonbashi Koukashita R Keikaku, and you can find it here th-cam.com/video/zGgBk3icgi4/w-d-xo.html
It's actually not an anime but just a short animated PV featuring 1st Place Co.'s Vocaloid, IA and a song made specifically for it (I think) by Jin.
nihonbashi Koukashita R keikaku. It's a music video i believe.
Thx!!
If One Punch Man wasn't down to a budget, why are the same staff not working on it? Bullshit. It's all down to a budget. Most of the anime with the best would not be made without an astronomical budget. Even long running anime need a budget. They just have to spread it out more.
Passion is NOT what pays their bills.
The change of staff for One Punch Man season 2 will most likely be down to Madhouse staff already working on another series of a scheduling clash.
Higher production TV anime generally have the same budget as standard TV anime. Scheduling usually controls a show's production quality.
Man, Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta is so unfortunately overlooked. Doesn't help there's no legal way to watch it. :/
is this channel still alive?
Brilliant synopsis,
The lack of kill la kill is worrying, surly such well done "animation" is deserved of a shout=out.